Snapped Tree Gets An Odd, Dying Advanced Spring; Rest Of Us To Enjoy Slow Greenup

This tree in Burlington, Vermont snapped in last week's
snowstorm. The sun-warmed gravel it was resting on
caused the tree to leaf out before all the others. 
However, the tree obviously won't survive.

 I thought the photo in this post was slightly interesting, so I figure I'd share it and what went on.

The tree in Burlington snapped under the weight of heavy snow last Tuesday, with the bottom part of it hung up on a fence and the top resting on a gravel parking lot. 

The warmth of the sun on the gravel in the days following the snow warmed the treetop up considerably. so it leafed out before any other tree in Burlington did. 

Of course, it was a dying gasp of greenery, since the tree is dead and will presumably be removed soon by whoever owns the parking lot. 

Other than honeysuckle shrubs and maybe a few willows, trees had not leafed out at all around the Champlain Valley as of Sunday. 

The National Phenology Network tracks the spring advance of green-up. In the map red areas are where spring is running ahead of average and blue is where it's running behind. White means spring hasn't hit yet, or the advance of spring is right around normal.  At least the greening of the earlier plants, like honeysuckle. 

Red is showing up in parts of Vermont on the map as of Sunday, as those earliest shrubs and plants are trying to leaf out. So spring is still earlier than average so far, but is not running as far ahead of schedule as last year. 

None of the bigger trees in the area showed signs of green as of Sunday. But some trees on Sunday   appeared to be on the cusp of greening up. A warm day today will probably coax a touch more greenery. Not to mention encourage your daffodils, tulips and forsythia to keep blooming. 

The National Phenology Network shows the Northeast
having an earlier than usual schedule for early
leafing plants. Vermont is just beginning to see 
green, and is a little ahead of normal. 

A mild night and a seasonably mild day Tuesday should encourage a little more spring growth, but things will stall for the rest of the week under a cool, breezy and cloudy weather regime. 

Daytime temperatures Wednesday and Thursday will stay below 50 degrees, which is a good ten to fifteen degrees cooler than average.

We could get some showers late tonight and the first half of Tuesday, but amounts will be very light. Unfortunately, we're due for light rain, and yes, snow showers Wednesday and Thursday. It won't be anything like last Tuesday, though. Light accumulations should be limited to higher terrain

The next chance of anything resembling springlike weather will come about next Sunday or so..